Your Ad Here

Archive for October 3rd, 2007

Fast Food Trout? Meet the McBrown and McCutthroats…

Original Post:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TroutUndergroundFlyFishBlog/~3/163548282/
To the McDonalds fast food chain, a “fish” is square and comes in a bun. That’s why it surprised me when Alert Underground Reader and Assistant in Charge of Finding Signs of the Apocalypse Jim Troyer emailed pictures of these trout — mounted on the wall of a McDonalds in Bishop, CA.
 A McBrown Trout. Supersized.
[…]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

A Big Fish on a Tiny Dry: The Underground Gets All Happy and Stuff

Original Post:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TroutUndergroundFlyFishBlog/~3/163826423/
Once or twice each year, you get a shot a really nice fish, and when things are really perfect, you get to catch him the way you want to, which in my case means little dry flies.
It’s not something I necessarily plan for, but when it happens, it makes me grateful I chucked it […]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

FFR Stuff That Rocks: Lamson’s Affordable Konic Fly Reel

Original Post:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TroutUndergroundFlyFishBlog/~3/163567201/
[ED: The first in a short series of reports from the FFR show about goodies that might not get a lot of press, but deserve to.]
While I remain a little skeptical of the practical advantages of large arbor reels, I bought one a few years ago — after Chris Raine and I started catching big, fast-moving […]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Spey casting with a single-handed rod

Original Post:
http://opax-flyfishing.blogspot.com/2007/10/spey-casting-with-single-handed-rod.html
Or Learning to cast again
I learned fly casting without instructors but by reading books, casting, and casting. It was in mid 80s and I was a pimple-faced teenager with a noodle fibreglass rod. Back then my books considered moving the wrist in casting as a critical mistake.
To keep a long story short, I haven’t […]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Brain-Eating Amoeba? Yet Another Reason to Fish Cold Water…

Original Post:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TroutUndergroundFlyFishBlog/~3/163918845/
Sure, flesh-eating bacteria remains foremost on our minds as the nation’s most-dangerous single-celled terrorist organism, but it turns out we had it wrong; for fishermen, killer, brain-eating amoeba are the real threat: 
PHOENIX (AP) It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks […]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007